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In reply to the discussion: A poll about our newest war for our dear DUers [View all]jobycom
(49,038 posts)Jesus, quit being so easily manipulated.
The enemy is always evil, always barely human, always driven by some horrible ideology that makes them into monsters. Communism, Islam, anti-colonialism, whatever. This nation has exterminated an indigenous population on this continent, enslaved a population kidnapped from another continent, and waged war just about every five to ten years its entire history, and always against some horrible intractable enemy busy killing babies, virgins, and Christians.
So you don't like an enemy who murders people in horrific ways because of their brutal ideology? The US in Fallujah fired into crowds of protesters, dropped bombs on civilian neighborhoods, shot civilians for being out of their houses when ordered to stay in their houses, and used white phosphorus against civilians, killing dozens by deploying weapons that literally melted the flesh from the bones of people. We killed thousands of people in a city because the city told us to get out since we had already overthrown the person we had invaded to overthrow.
Is ISIS worse than that?
It's a never ending cycle. We are always being told that the US is a peaceful nation only rarely driven to war, and yet we are always at war against some enemy that is so much more horrible than the last enemy that they just can't be allowed to live. One more war. One more war. One more war. Iraq. Iran. Lebanon. Grenada. Panama. Vietnam. Korea. Japan. The Philippines. Cuba. Nicaragua. Libya. Somalia. Serbia. Afghanistan. Columbia. Who can even remember them all?
Seriously, at some point you think we'd catch on. We're like the cat chasing the laser dot, sure it's really real this time.
You oppose every war, or you never stop war. It's that simple.